# Floyd Bentley

Floyd Eugene Bentley III (born July 7, 1987), also known by his stage names A1 and SprngBrk, is an American record producer and songwriter. He has been credited on singles and albums for prominent music industry artists including Drake, Chris Brown, Trey Songz and Future, among others. He co-wrote the latter's 2022 single "Wait for U", which peaked atop the Billboard Hot 100 and won a Grammy Award. Bentley has often worked in tandem with fellow producer Hitmaka and his former spouse, Lyrica Anderson.
In his personal life, Bentley's relationship with Anderson has been publicized on the reality television series Love & Hip Hop: Hollywood, where Bentley appeared on seasons 3 through 6, as well as other various other reality shows.

## Career
### Early life

Bentley grew up on “the rough side of Kansas City”, and was accepted to Highland Community College, where he played basketball. In his junior year, Bentley suffered a serious leg injury, making the decision to subsequently leave both the basketball team and college. After returning home and starting a job, Bentley began to write songs and rap, attracting the interest of an early manager. He quickly realized that his passion was music, and moved to Los Angeles to break into the music industry. Bentley experienced homelessness for 8 months before a chance encounter with Tony! Toni! Toné! artist and producer Raphael Saadiq, who allowed him to use his studio for six months after hearing several early demos, and Saadiq also introduced him to Mike Caren, the former Executive President of A&R at Atlantic Records. Caren subsequently gave Bentley the opportunity to write for several artists in his roster, including Trey Songz and Tank.

### 2010–2018: Initial songwriting success

In 2010, Bentley co-wrote "Unusual" featuring Drake for American singer Trey Songz, which entered the Billboard Hot 100, peaked at number seven on the US Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart, and won Bentley an ASCAP Rhythm & Soul Award. Over years, he also received album placements on various Tank, Chris Brown, and Jason Derulo projects. In 2016, Bentley released his debut single "Upside Down" featuring rapper O.T. Genasis. Bentley began to create a closer relationship with Chris Brown's camp at this time, accepting potential album submissions and demos for Brown from other songwriters. In 2017. Bentley contributed twelve songs to Chris Brown's album Heartbreak on a Full Moon, including multi-platinum single "Party" featuring Usher and Gucci Mane, as well as platinum single "Questions". Bentley would also co-write and co-produce "No Pressure" for French Montana's Jungle Rules project, as well as co-write and co-produce Platinum single "Something New" for Wiz Khalifa and Ty Dolla Sign, which went viral as the result of a summer TikTok dance challenge.

### 2019–present: SprngBrk

In 2019, through a Power 106 interview, Bentley was announced as a new artist signee of T-Pain's record label Nappy Boy Entertainment, releasing debut mixtape Turbulence, before changing his artist name to SprngBrk as a form of "reintroduction" after his reality TV appearances. Bentley released single "Pride" in 2021, as the first release in a new collaboration between Nappy Boy and music streaming platform Soundcloud's RePost A&R creation department. In 2022, Bentley co-wrote two songs from Future's album I Never Liked You, including multi-platinum, Billboard number-one single "Wait For U".

## Personal life

Bentley met fellow artist-songwriter Lyrica Anderson in an elevator at a Los Angeles area studio prior to a songwriting session for a mutual friend, before getting married in 2016. Together they have one son, Ocean Zion Bentley, born in 2018. Anderson filed for divorce in 2022 for undisclosed reasons.

## Discography
### Studio projects

* Love Scars EP (with Lyrica Anderson) (2016)
* Turbulence (2019)

### Guest appearances

List of guest appearances, with other performing artists, showing year released and album name :
| Title | Year | Other performer(s) | Album |
| "Sensei" | 2017 | Chris Brown | Heartbreak on a Full Moon |

### Songwriting and production credits

Credits are courtesy of Discogs, Tidal, Apple Music, and AllMusic.
| Title | Year | Artist | Album |
| "Unusual" (Featuring Drake) | 2010 | Trey Songz | Passion, Pain & Pleasure |
| "I'm Pouring My Heart Out" | 2010 | Norman Brown | Sending My Love |
| "Stingy" (Featuring Donnie Wahlberg) | 2011 | Jordan Knight | Unfinished |
| "Lonely" (Featuring Chris Brown) | 2012 | Tank | This Is How I Feel |
| "Nowhere" (Featuring Busta Rhymes) | 2012 | Tank | This Is How I Feel |
| "I'm Gone" (Featuring Big Sean) | 2012 | Tyga | Careless World: Rise of the Last King |
| "All We Do" | 2014 | Trey Songz | Trigga |
| "Valet" (Featuring Pleasure P & TeeFlii) | 2014 | Eric Bellinger | Choose Up Season |
| "Little Bit" | 2015 | Chris Brown | Royalty |
| "Wrist" (Featuring Solo Lucci) | 2015 | Chris Brown | Royalty |
| "Love Like That" (Featuring K. Michelle) | 2015 | Jason Derulo | Everything Is 4 |
| "I Just Wanna" (Featuring Dej Loaf) | 2015 | Elijah Blake | Shadows & Diamonds |
| "Wrist Remix (Featuring Young Thug & Jeezy) | 2016 | Chris Brown | Before the Trap: Nights in Tarzana |
| "I Need Love" (Featuring Hoody Baby, Young Blacc) | 2016 | Chris Brown | Before the Trap: Nights in Tarzana |
| "Partyin' Next Door" (Featuring Young Blacc) | 2016 | Chris Brown | Before the Trap: Nights in Tarzana |
| "Questions" | 2017 | Chris Brown | Heartbreak on a Full Moon |
| "Roses" | 2017 | Chris Brown | Heartbreak on a Full Moon |
| "Confidence" | 2017 | Chris Brown | Heartbreak on a Full Moon |
| "Sip" | 2017 | Chris Brown | Heartbreak on a Full Moon |
| "Hope You Do" | 2017 | Chris Brown | Heartbreak on a Full Moon |
| "Pull Up" | 2017 | Chris Brown | Heartbreak on a Full Moon |
| "Party (Featuring Usher & Gucci Mane) | 2017 | Chris Brown | Heartbreak on a Full Moon |
| "Summer Breeze" | 2017 | Chris Brown | Heartbreak on a Full Moon |
| "If You're Down" | 2017 | Chris Brown | Heartbreak on a Full Moon |
| "Run Away" | 2017 | Chris Brown | Heartbreak on a Full Moon |
| "Don't Slow Me Down" | 2017 | Chris Brown | Heartbreak on a Full Moon |
| "I Wanna" | 2017 | Chris Brown | Heartbreak on a Full Moon |
| "Hotel Bathroom" | 2017 | French Montana | Jungle Rules |
| "No Pressure" (Featuring Future) | 2017 | French Montana | Jungle Rules |
| "Classic You" (Featuring Chris Brown) | 2017 | T-Pain | Oblivion |
| "No Rush" | 2017 | T-Pain | Oblivion |
| "Ex" (Featuring YG) | 2017 | Ty Dolla Sign | Beach House 3 |
| "Enormous" (Featuring Ty Dolla Sign) | 2017 | Gucci Mane | Mr. Davis |
| "Tone It Down" (Featuring Chris Brown) | 2017 | Gucci Mane | Mr. Davis |
| "Crash & Burn" (Featuring Kehlani) | 2017 | G-Eazy | The Beautiful & Damned |
| "Don't Get Much Better" (With Jeremih & Sage the Gemini} | 2017 | Ty Dolla Sign | The Fate of the Furious (soundtrack) |
| "Pie" (Featuring Chris Brown) | 2017 | Future | Hndrxx |
| "Me So Bad" (Featuring Ty Dolla Sign & French Montana) | 2018 | Tinashe | Joyride |
| "Something New" (Featuring Ty Dolla Sign) | 2018 | Wiz Khalifa | Rolling Papers 2 |
| "Goin Thru Some Thangz" | 2018 | MihTy | MihTy |
| "New Level" | 2018 | MihTy | MihTy |
| "Take Your Time" | 2018 | MihTy | MihTy |
| "These Days" | 2018 | MihTy | MihTy |
| "Imitate" | 2018 | MihTy | MihTy |
| "You Like That" | 2019 | Chris Brown | Indigo |
| "Cheetah" | 2019 | Chris Brown | Indigo |
| "Part of the Plan" | 2019 | Chris Brown | Indigo |
| "Technology" | 2019 | Chris Brown | Indigo |
| "No Stylist" (Featuring Drake) | 2019 | French Montana | Montana |
| "I Got Time" (Featuring Shad Da God) | 2020 | Chris Brown & Young Thug | Slime & B |
| "Undrunk" (Featuring Too Short & E-40) | 2020 | Chris Brown | Slime & B |
| "Wait for U" (Featuring Drake & Tems) | 2022 | Future | I Never Liked You |
| "Back to the Basics" | 2022 | Future | I Never Liked You |
| "Hmhmm" (Featuring EST Gee) | 2022 | Chris Brown | Breezy |
| "Hate Me Tomorrow" | 2022 | Chris Brown | Breezy |
| "Closure" (Featuring H.E.R.) | 2022 | Chris Brown | Breezy |
| "Need A Friend" | 2023 | Chris Brown | 11:11 |
| "Go Girlfriend" | 2023 | Chris Brown | 11:11 |
| "Residuals" | 2024 | Chris Brown | 11:11 (Deluxe Edition) |

## Filmography
### Television

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 2016-2019 | Love & Hip Hop: Hollywood | Himself | 54 Episodes - Supporting Cast S3-S4; Main Cast S5-S6 |
| 2017 | Hollywood Unlocked With Jason Lee Uncensored | Himself | 1 Episode |
| 2017 | Love & Hip-Hop Hollywood: Dirty Little Secrets | Himself | 1 Episode |
| 2018 | Love & Hip Hop: New York: The Love Edition | Himself | 1 Episode |
| 2019 | Love & Hip-Hop Awards: Most Certified | Himself | 1 Episode |
| 2019 | 40 Greatest Love & Hip Hop Moments: The Reboot – Part 1 & 2 | Himself | 2 Episodes |
| 2020 | The Conversation | Himself | 2 Episodes - S1.4 - 1.5 |
| 2022 | Marriage Boot Camp: Reality Stars 17 - Hip Hop Edition 5 | Himself | 10 Episodes - Main Cast S19 |

## Awards and nominations

| Year | Work | Award | Result |
| 2012 | ASCAP Rhythm & Soul Awards | Award-Winning Songs (Unusual) | Won |
| 2023 | 65th Annual Grammy Awards | Grammy Award for Best Rap Song (Wait for U) | Nominated |
| 2023 | 65th Annual Grammy Awards | Grammy Award for Best Melodic Rap Performance (Wait for U) | Won |
| 2023 | BMI R&B/Hip-Hop Awards | Most-Performed Songs (Wait for U) | Won |